TERM 1
An attitude of suspicion
DEFINITION 1
The perspective adopted by critical studies scholars in which
they assume that things are often other than what they
seem to be.
TERM 2
The work of a critic
DEFINITION 2
To show how it is that people are empowered or
disempowered by the meanings of various texts.
TERM 3
Qualitative research
DEFINITION 3
More concerned with qualities than quantities, with meanings
more than numbers.
TERM 4
Rhetorical criticism
DEFINITION 4
An exercise in showing the influences exerted by signs
through their meanings.
TERM 5
Economic
claass
DEFINITION 5
A major demographic category that has preoccupied scholars
in critical studies.
